Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002

vi + 130 + vii foliated leaves : 237 x 167 (180 x 110) mm, bound to 237 x 167 mm

Lacunose copy of an illustrated Persian translation of a book of astronomy, mostly focused on the constellations; constellation illustrations from two sides have been transferred by pounce and are sometimes not completely inked or painted (see f. 52v, for example). Others have been outlined by pricking (see f. 58 lower illustrations, for example)

Manuscript codex

Layout: 23 lines per page and occasional tables of variable dimensions

Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed

Decoration: 65 illustrations of constellations, often in color; numerous tables in red and black; rubrications in red

Origin: The item is undated; probably copied in the 18th or 19th century

Shelfmark: MS Or 442

Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description

Owner's note and stamp (f. 1r)

Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR

Columbia University Catalog: go to CLIO

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